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| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | A stereograph of the Confederate prison Castle Thunder. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | "Andersonville Prison, Camp Sumter, Ga., as it appeared August 1st 1864 when it contained 35,000 prisoners of war." |
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| Description: | A stereograph of exterior of General Lee's residence. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length studio portrait of Reverend Samuel Eaton posed with his hands on the back of a chair. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Union troops at Lawler Hall which was used as a U.S. military hospital during the Civil War. Originally built as the Brisbois Hotel in 1857, it was given f... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | The locomotives "Christopher Adams" and "Liverpool," taken over and operated by the U.S. military during the Civil War. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Petition to President Abraham Lincoln for the establishment of soldiers homes and hospitals in Wisconsin. The petition is signed by 18 women. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | An albumen stereograph of a monument to the Confederate dead, in the shape of a stone pyramid with steeply pitched sides. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | General Hood ordered a train full of gunpowder set on fire so that the Union Army couldn't use it, resulting in a series of explosions Plate 44 |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Confederate defenses surrounding the city. A tripod style configuration of rifles with a bag and canteen hanging from it is in the foreground. Plate 43<... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | One of the Confederate defenses surrounding the city. This view is of the inside of the earthworks which includes two cannons. A Union soldier sits as a lo... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | One of the Confederate defenses around the city, with a cannon and earthworks in the foreground. Tents are in the background among trees. Plate 41 |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | One of the Confederate defenses around the city, with several cannons behind earthworks. A Union soldier stands near one of the cannons. Plate 40 |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | View looking out from one of the Confederate defenses around the outside of the city. Wooden palisades surround the earthworks. Houses and other buildings ... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | View of heavily damaged house and felled trees after General Sherman's army passed through. Plate 38 |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | View down hillside of Union soldiers standing in front of a group of tents. There is a valley and mountains in the distance. Plate 07 |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Union soldiers stand by their tents in front of a trestle bridge on the railroad line that spans a valley. A mountain is in the background. Plate 06 |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | View down to valley of Union soldiers posing on the roof of a log building. A log bridge crosses a stream, and many trees are on the hillsides. Plate 05... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of tall trestle bridge on the railroad line crossing the river at Whiteside. Two men sit on logs in the river on the left. More men sit... |
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